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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Contraction of kind of.

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  • noun A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
  • adverb colloquial kind of; somewhat
  • phrase colloquial kind of.

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  • adverb to some (great or small) extent

Etymologies

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After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Written form of a reduction of "kind of"

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